Gualtiero Munoz

Gualtiero Munoz (1775-) was the Secretary of War of Spain during the June 1812 junta of Humberto Gallas.

Biography
Gualtiero Munoz was born in the Province of Sevilla in southern Spain, and became a politician. In June 1812, when Humberto Gallas formed a new interim government during the Peninsular War, Munoz was chosen to be the Secretary of War.

Munoz was placed in charge of commanding and supplying the Spanish Army as they fought the French Army that was invading Spain's provinces, and it was him that ordered the advances and retreats of their forces. He was responsible for crushing many rebellions by rival guerrillas in Spain's seditious northern provinces and for fighting the French in the north, although Valencia was lost.

While he was responsible for the Peninsular War, he was also in command of Spain's armies abroad. During the Peninsular War, Spain's South American colonies fought for independence in the South American Wars of Liberation. Munoz was responsible for dispatching armies to the Americas to restore order against the rebels, and it was him that pulled the strings of royalist reactions.